The Future of SAM.gov

Grants.gov users know SAM.gov as the website on which they need to register in order to do business with the U.S. government. On SAM.gov, users can create an entity registration, update or renew an entity registration, check status of an entity registration, and search for entity registration and exclusion records.

Plans are in place to consolidate under SAM.gov 10 existing federal award systems that are managed by the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Integrated Award Environment. These systems handle assistance listings, contract opportunities, wage determinations, and sub-award data, among other things.

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A December update to Beta.SAM.gov (Release 11) moved the portal closer to its goal of integrating the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA.gov) and Wage Determinations On-Line (WDOL.gov) by the end of fiscal year 2018.